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For an initially bare cone with accumulation $a\simeq A$ near its apex, the early outer thickness is $At$. The radial gravity flux becomes comparable to accumulation over distance $x_a\sim D{A}^2{t}^3$. Setting $h=AtF(\eta )$ and $\eta =x/(D{A}^2{t}^3)$ givesRegular apex flux requires $F\sim (\eta /2{)}^{1/3}$ near zero. The boundary layer therefore approaches the local steady thickness $(Ax/(2D){)}^{1/3}$ while farther regions are still filling.

For a uniform initial column, annular return flow around a slumping column competes with axial extensional stress over $\hat{z}=\sqrt{h_0^3/(2\lambda a_0)}$. With $G=\Delta \rho g/(3\mu )$, choose velocity $\hat{w}=G{\hat{z}}^2$ and time $\hat{t}=\hat{z}/\hat{w}$. Equivalently $\hat{z}=R/\sqrt{\lambda {\alpha }_0}$, where $\varphi =a^2/R^2$ and $\alpha (\varphi )=2\sqrt{\varphi }/(1-\sqrt{\varphi }{)}^3$ in the leading thin-annulus model. This length describes the vertical range of the basal constraint: a much taller column has a localized basal boundary layer, while a much shorter column responds predominantly through extension.

A Hartmann layer is the thin viscous-magnetic boundary layer next to a wall crossed by the applied magnetic field. For channel half-width $L$ and large Hartmann number $H$, its thickness is $\delta \sim L/H=\sqrt{{\mu }_0\rho \nu \eta }/|B_0|$. It restores the no-slip boundary condition and the specified magnetic wall condition outside the nearly uniform Hartmann flow core.

Even when most of an unconfined aquifer with depth-dependent permeability is deep, its height vanishes at an absorbing outlet. Near that outlet, finite outward volume flux per unit width $Q$ gives $u_{b}h{h}_x\simeq Q$ and hence $h\simeq (2Qx/u_b{)}^{1/2}$. The high-depth outer approximation instead has $h\simeq [6Qx/(u_b\beta ){]}^{1/3}$. Their crossover lies at height of order $1/\beta$ and distance of order $u_b/({\beta }^{2}Q)$; the thin inner boundary layer transmits the same leading discharge.